Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification
(A) Adding Standard Subdivisions from Table 1
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| (A) Adding Standard Subdivisions from Table 1 8.3 A standard subdivision represents a recurring physical form (such as a dictionary, periodical, or index) or approach (such as history or research) and thus is applicable to any subject or discipline that covers or approximates the whole of the meaning of the number. Here area few examples with the standard subdivision concept underlined (in some cases an extra 0 precedes the standard subdivision according to instructions found in the schedules 150.1 Philosophy and theory of psychology 230.003 Dictionary of Christianity 340.02573 Directory of lawyers in the US. 405 Periodical on language 507.8 Use of apparatus and equipment in the study and teaching of science, e.g., science fair projects 624.0285 Computer applications in civil engineering 796.912092 Biography of a figure skater 808.0071 Teaching of rhetoric Further instructions on using Table 1 are found at the beginning of Table 1. See also Manual notes on selected standard subdivisions. 8.4 Standard subdivisions are not usually listed in the schedules except where needed to fill out three-digit numbers, e.g., 605 Serial publications, and in a few other instances. Standard subdivisions maybe listed in the schedules when the subdivisions have extended or narrowed meanings. For example 535.220287 Testing and measurement (extended meaning) Class here photometry 390.088 Customs of Religious groups (narrowed meaning) Do not use for occupational groups class in 390.4 Standard subdivisions may also be listed to introduce an expansion featuring special notation (the subdivisions in the expansion are not standard subdivisions. Such standard subdivisions are accompanied by a special note. For example 370.1 Philosophy and theory, education for specific objectives, educational psychology Notation 01 from Table 1 as modified below 24 Sometimes, standard subdivisions are listed because references to other classes or the Manual are required. For example 507.2 Research Class research covering science in general in 001.4 See Manual at 500 vs. 001 507.21 Research methods Class scientific method as a general research technique in 001.42 8.5 When standard subdivision notation from Table 1 is listed in Tables 2-6 and in the schedules, all of the notation’s notes and subdivisions as given in Table 1 are applicable unless other instructions are given. Other Table 1 notation that is not listed in the schedules may also be used. For example, the fact that 610.7 is listed, but not 610.8 or the subdivisions of 610.7, does not exclude the use of 610.8 or 610.71. 8.6 Notation from Table 1 Standard Subdivisions maybe added to any number in the schedules unless there is a specific instruction to the contrary. The classifier should never use more than one zero in applying a standard subdivision unless instructed to do so. If more than one zero is needed, the number of zeros is always indicated in the schedules. When using standard subdivisions with numbers built by adding from Tables 2-6 or other parts of the schedules, be sure to check the table or schedule used for the segment preceding the standard subdivision for special instructions on the number of zeros. 8.7 The most important caveat with respect to standard subdivisions is that they are added only for works that cover or approximate the whole of the subject of the number. For example, a work on mockingbirds of California should be classed in 598.844, the number for birds of the Mimidae family (not 598.84409794, the number for birds of the Mimidae family in California. The classifier should not attempt to specify California because mockingbirds are in the including note under 598.844 and therefore do not approximate the whole of 598.844 Mimidae. Likewise, class a work on the De Havilland 98 Mosquito a specific British World War II fighter-bomber) in the number for fighter-bombers 623.7463 (not 623.7463094109044, the number for British fighter-bombers in World War II). 8.8 Standard-subdivisions-are-added notes indicate which topics in a multiterm heading may have standard subdivisions added for them because the designated topics are considered to approximate the whole of the subject. For example 25 639.2 Commercial fishing, whaling, sealing Standard subdivisions are added for commercial fishing, whaling, sealing together for commercial fishing alone Standard-subdivisions-are-added notes do not have hierarchical force beyond the standard subdivisions associated with the number itself. For example, the note under 639.2 governs the application of standard subdivisions to 639.2 itself, but not to 639.21- 639.29. 8.9 Do not add multiple standard subdivisions to the same number except when specifically instructed to do so, and in the following instances. Standard subdivisions maybe added to subdivisions of T Special topics that are specifically listed in the schedules. For example, standard subdivisions maybe added to 155.9042 Stress, a subdivision of 155.904 Special topics in environmental psychology. Standard subdivisions may also be added to special notation in the regular standard subdivision sequence. For example, under 370.1, there is an expansion for educational objectives at 370.11 Education for specific objectives. Standard subdivisions maybe added to 370.11 and its subdivisions, since 370.11 and its subdivisions are special notation. Standard subdivision concepts maybe displaced to a special provision in the regular sequence of standard subdivisions or elsewhere in either case, standard subdivisions maybe added to the special provision. For example, 370.19 Psychological principles has been completely displaced to 370.15 Educational psychology, where the regular meaning of 370.15 (scientific principles) has been discontinued to 370.1. Notation 03 from Table 1, the standard subdivision for encyclopedias, maybe added to 370.15 Educational psychology to represent an encyclopedia of educational psychology 370.1503. The full range of standard subdivisions may also be added to standard subdivision concepts displaced to notation outside the regular sequence of standard subdivisions, e.g., the management of penal institutions in Great Britain 365.941068 (geographic treatment of penal institutions has been displaced from 365.09 to 365.9). 8.10 In many places in the schedules, there are numbers outside the regular sequence of standard subdivisions that look like standard subdivisions but are not standard subdivisions. If additional subdivisions are intended to be used at the special provision, an add note is provided. For example, at 027.009, a regular standard subdivision, geographic treatment is displaced to 027.01-027.09: 26 027.009 History and biography Do not use for geographic treatment class in 027.01-027.09 027.01-027.09 Geographic treatment Add to base number 027.0 notation 1-9 from Table 2, e.g., libraries in France 027.044 The special provision for geographic treatment at 027.01-027.09 is not a standard subdivision. If appropriate, standard subdivisions maybe added to the resulting notation, e.g., libraries in France in the late 20th century 027.04409045. 8.11 Standard subdivisions should not be used where redundant, i.e., where the subdivision means the same as the base number, or where application of the standard subdivision would needlessly segregate material by aspects not emphasized by the author. For example, do not add notation 024694, which represents the subject for carpenters, to topics in 694, the number for carpentry, since works on a subject are written primarily for its practitioners. Likewise, do not add the subdivision of notation 0905 for the latest historical period to general works on a subject to represent the state-of-the-art because most users will expect to find such works in the main number. Special care should betaken in adding standard subdivisions to built numbers, since the standard subdivision applies to the whole number and not just to part of the number. 8.12 The table of preference at the beginning of Table 1 yields to two other rules, the rule of application and the rule of zero. By the rule of application, teaching financial management in hospital administration is classed in 362.110681, not 362.11071, even though notation 07 is above notation 068 in the table of preference. The rule of zero overrides the table of preference when standard subdivisions are displaced to notation outside the regular sequence of standard subdivisions (notation at nonzero positions or notation with fewer zeros, e.g., management of prisons in Great Britain 365.941068, not 365.068 as would be the case if prisons in Great Britain were classed in 365.0941. (Fora discussion of the rule of application and rule of zero, see paragraph 5.7; fora discussion of displaced standard subdivisions, see paragraphs 7.28 and 8.9.) Download 298.33 Kb. Share with your friends:
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